Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Leptospermum namadgiensis

Common name

Namadgi tea-tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland and shrubland on exposed rocky ridges or mountain tops, at high altitude. Southern ACT and mountain peaks near the southern ACT.

Notes

Shrub, prostrate or to 1 m tall. Bark smooth and shed in strips or flaky layers, or rough and finely fissured. Stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.3-0.9 cm long, 1.5-3.7 mm wide, both surfaces silky, silvery to greyish green, or occasionally more or less hairless; tips pointed; bases tapering into a stalk about 1 mm long. Flowers with 5 white to pink petals 2.5-3 mm long, single or in pairs. Flowers Summer. Nuts 2–2.5 mm in diameter, hairy, falling early.  

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~namadgiense (accessed 13 April 2021)